Monday, October 16, 2006

Movie Notes "Man of the Year"

Good comedy, but no political satire:

Yes, this is the Robin Williams we all love, and with probably his best director, and the supporting cast? Christopher Walken, Laura Linney, Jeff Goldblum and add the other great comedic political satirist, Lewis Black; just wonderful. I went to see Lewis Black and Robin Williams together on screen. Although, this film has writing credits going to Barry Levinson, but all I heard were old jokes from Robin and Lewis Black, they were just rehashing the same jokes from the last five years. Don't get me wrong it was funny, and the concept of Robin's character Tom Dobbs, a successful comedian running for president of the United States was funny, but I was expecting more from Barry Levinson, Robin Williams and Luis Black. More along the lines of 'Wag the Dog.' This was funny but it had no bite. I think that is where this fails as a movie for me, I enjoyed it but I wanted more, more meaning about how this reflects our own real political climate from five years ago and how we can laugh at it now.

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